Wahey! Miracles can happen. The county council's cabinet member for transport, no less, admits "we got it wrong" over the Abingdon traffic scheme (Oxford Mail, June 10).

I bet the people of Abingdon, and those trying to earn a living there or thereabouts, are most comforted by it.

So it'll be a rethink of the transport shambles here in Oxford next then, perhaps? I somehow think not.

Look at Oxford's Cornmarket - the only pedestrianised and bus-free road in Oxford has a set of traffic lights at either end!

How's this for a minor change that might make any £3.1m scheme work better or, at worse, "improve the situation".

Simply replace or remove the cabinet member for transport!

To have an 'independent' consultation commissioned by the county council, at taxpayers' expense, no doubt, to highlight the system's shortcomings, after it has been put into place, is bad enough, but to force a second report to be paid for by local business "to explain to them why years of hard work, effort and their business" are possibly going down the pan is a bit rich, to say the least.

Just sack the man in charge and use his wages to make good the immediate damage.

He's no doubt been paid the going rate for a responsible job.

If it's no good, he's responsible - simple logic. Wouldn't it be nice, just once, if those 'in control' would just ask the people who depend on and use the local road network what they want and need - and listen!

Committees are good things if they include the appropriately skilled people.

I regularly drive to places all over the country.

Oxfordshire is pretty poor, compared with most places, for needless sets of lights, traffic chicanes, road markings, signs etc.

It's as if the powers-that-be need an excuse to spend the money or simply justify their own positions.

It has been said that a camel is a horse designed by a committee.

"If it ain't broke don't fix it" couldn't be more applicable here really, could it?

DAVID WILLIAMS David Walter Close Oxford